At least 252 people lost their lives during the protests that erupted in Mozambique after the October 9 elections, validated this week by the Constitutional Council. The figures were revealed today by the non-governmental organization Plataforma Eleitoral Decide, pointing out that half of the deaths, 125, were recorded since the beginning of the week, between...
This afternoon, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) declared Frelimo presidential candidate Daniel Francisco Chapo the winner of the seventh General Election held on October 9. According to the results released by the president of the CNE, Carlos Matsinhe, presidential candidate Daniel Chapo received 4,912,758 votes, which corresponds to 70.67%. According to the results announced...
The Bank of Mozambique (BdM) and the Mozambican Banking Association (AMB) have decided to maintain the prime rate that will apply to credit institutions in October at 20.50%. The information is contained in a document released yesterday, Monday (30), by the two institutions and to which MZNews had access. The prime rate for the...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released the dates of the matches between the Mozambican national team and their counterparts from Eswatini, for the double round of Group I qualifying for the 2025 African Nations Championship (CAN), to be held in Morocco. Thus, according to a publication in the newspaper Desafio, Mozambique will host Eswatini in...
US President Joe Biden will visit Angola on October 14. This will be the first time that a US head of state has visited the country, according to a report in the newspaper Negócios. Biden's trip is a diplomatic victory for the Angolan president, João Lourenço, who has...
The head of the mission of the European Union (EU) group to observe the October 9 elections, Laura Cereza, assured yesterday that the 150 members deployed for this election will be totally impartial, stressing that there will be no interference in the process. Speaking at a press conference, Laura Cereza said that the election observers from...
Mozambique expects to be off the gray list by next October after making significant progress in the fight against money laundering, with the upward reclassification of seven Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations, approved by the Council of Ministers of the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMIG).....
The National Electoral Commission (CNE), the body responsible for supervising voter registration and electoral acts in Mozambique, revealed yesterday, Tuesday (06), that it still doesn't have enough budget to cover the costs of producing ballot papers for the candidates for President of the Republic, political parties and other contestants in the elections on October 9....